jacopo staiano

*twitter won't let me follow you back so I put you in a private list*

[Multimedia & Human Understanding Group (MHUG) @mhug_unitn]

🚀 CVPR, here we come!

The MHUG team is bringing a massive lineup of 17 papers this year, and we couldn't be more excited to share what we've been building! 🧠💻

🧵👇

[jacopo staiano @stjaco]

@PMinervini @icmlconf I hope forfeited means it will be randomly assigned to one of those applying for financial support

[jacopo staiano @stjaco]

ricordate la Brambilla? e' legale appiccicare sta schifezza sui giornali in vendita? chi lo permette? @Corriere

[jacopo staiano @stjaco]

@zehavoc eheheh enjoy mate!

[jacopo staiano @stjaco]

"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by."

[Multimedia & Human Understanding Group (MHUG) @mhug_unitn]

🚨🚨🚨
#neurips2026

[jacopo staiano @stjaco]

il sito de @repubblica ci riporta a 20 giorni fa.
bei tempi.

[Multimedia & Human Understanding Group (MHUG) @mhug_unitn]

We are so back 😎

[jacopo staiano @stjaco]

scary. no pasaran.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Hello, this is Yanis Varoufakis with a piece of news that would have been hilarious if it weren’t so scary. This morning, two policemen appeared on my doorstep to serve a summons ordering me to the police headquarters to be interrogated by the Greek DEA, our drug busting police department. Not as a witness, expert or not, but as the accused. Accused of what?

Shortly after New Year’s, I appeared on a podcast organised by young people to answer their questions on everything that concerns Gen Z today: social media, the meaning of life, their job prospects, what I call technofeudalism etc. At some point, they asked me if I had ever used drugs. Determined not to do a Bill Clinton (remember the laughable “I didn’t inhale”?), I said I had. Apart from pot, I told them, I had one experience of taking ecstasy in Sydney 36 years ago. It was pleasant, I danced for 16 hours effortlessly but then, I added, it gave me a migraine for a week – and so I never used again. That was my introduction to making the point that, however pleasant drug taking may seem, there is a price to pay. And that the ultimate price is dependence, addiction – “the end of liberty”, I said emphatically.

Do you see where this is going? Yes, the Greek police have opened an investigation of me under the charge of... aiding and abetting the narco-mafia. [Do me a favour folks: Please don’t tell Trump, OK?]

Seriously now, at a time of war, genocide, stupendous exploitation and so on, my little trouble with the inane Greek police is neither here nor there. But it is important. Here, in Europe, many people still live under the illusion that we have liberty, rationality and freedom. We don’t. Dark forces are at work, pushing us into a postmodern version of the Dark Ages.

So, beware, people! They are out to take away the last remnants of autonomy and freedom we have left. Resistance is, literally, existence.

[jacopo staiano @stjaco]

should be more popular

[Pasquale Minervini @PMinervini]

Unpopular opinion -- I don't think we should accept papers in top AI conferences whose contribution is mainly experimental but don't provide the data and tools to reproduce the experiments. I have seen several papers with flawed results, but without code there's no way of telling

[jacopo staiano @stjaco]

@NVIDIAGeForce geforce season

[jacopo staiano @stjaco]

@zehavoc @grok is this the timeline which follows the "let's make anything Djame thinks impossible possible"?

[jacopo staiano @stjaco]

@Giorgiolaporta @GiorgiaMeloni qui non si parla della possibilita' di iscriversi a un corso di laurea esistente (cosa, ancora, garantita a chiunque), ma della richiesta di attivarne uno ad-hoc.

[jacopo staiano @stjaco]

@zehavoc not sure. need some hebrew speaker and/or feed the audio into a local model.

[jacopo staiano @stjaco]

@zehavoc hiw about auto subtitles using autistic children instead of gazan children? jeez

[jacopo staiano @stjaco]

@zehavoc some decoding constraint there innit

[Pasquale Minervini @PMinervini]

My neighbour's family is affected by Cyclone Ditwah, and she is unable to contact them. While we were together, she tried finding pictures of her town, but 60%+ of the images on her feed were AI-generated. This sucks so hard, we can do amazing things but choose to do this instead

[jacopo staiano @stjaco]

@PMinervini shitty situation with no decent solution possible. can't blame iclr for the choice, even if it sucks for many of us. yet, I hope someone up in the ranks looks into the data (finally! data!) for "misbehaviors" and applies the bans. time to clean up.

[jacopo staiano @stjaco]

@zehavoc new details emerge, seems even worse.. https://t.co/8eRRIEArXT

[jacopo staiano @stjaco]

@zehavoc true that, gotta find a trade-off...

[jacopo staiano @stjaco]

@zehavoc useless. moving towards journals.